Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

Billy Corgan

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose

Big Sean

I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it.

Big Sean

I feel like you should be confident in whatever you do, and a lot of my new music [that's coming out] I want people to judge more so than the music I've put out recently, because I feel like it's really changed a lot.

C. S. Lewis

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

Bill Bryson

My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.

Arnon Goldfinger

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.

Fabio Lara

Judging by the sharp fall, you could say there was a moment of panic, but we didn't stay at minimum levels for long. It just looked like some wanted to square their positions at any cost.

Nick Bennenbroek

Part of the reason for the dollar's weakness today is positioning,

Lee Rainie

Part of the reason for that is resources,

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Someone had blundered:/ Theirs not to make reply,/ Theirs not to reason why,/ Theirs but to do and die.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Graeme Smith

We never really got a reason from the umpires, I think that was probably the most frustrating part.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Andrew Strauss

I think there'll be a result and if we play like we have done there's no reason why we can't win it from this position,

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.